[% setvar title Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die %]
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<a name='TITLE'></a><h1>TITLE</h1>
<p>Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die</p>
<a name='VERSION'></a><h1>VERSION</h1>
<pre>  Maintainer: Nathan Wiger &lt;<a href='mailto:nate@wiger.org'>nate@wiger.org</a>&gt;
  Date: 8 Aug 2000
  Last Modified: 15 Sep 2000
  Mailing List: <a href='mailto:perl6-language@perl.org'>perl6-language@perl.org</a>
  Number: 71
  Version: 2
  Status: Frozen</pre>
<a name='ABSTRACT'></a><h1>ABSTRACT</h1>
<p>Perl used to use $pkg'var instead of the modern $pkg::var. This is still
in Perl 5. It's gotta go.</p>
<a name='DESCRIPTION'></a><h1>DESCRIPTION</h1>
<p>See above.</p>
<a name='IMPLEMENTATION'></a><h1>IMPLEMENTATION</h1>
<p>See above.</p>
<a name='NOTES ON FREEZE'></a><h1>NOTES ON FREEZE</h1>
<p>Damian worried that this would mean Klingon.pm would no longer be
portable to Perl 6. He failed to convince other people on the list that
this was actually a bad thing. ;-) (kidding!!)</p>
<a name='REFERENCES'></a><h1>REFERENCES</h1>
<p>Camel-3 p. 60 reminded me of this.</p>
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